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thanks for note

thanks for your positive response, and your helpful and considerate words! it is truly appreciated. a litttle positive sentiments like yours is what enables our whole community to function better. much appreciated! there, I'm smiling again, thanks to you!! Sm8900 (talk) 20:31, 3 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You're very welcome!

It can be a tough topic to approach, but I certainly appreciate you doing so — TheresNoTime (talk • she/her) 10:37, 5 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

A few more edit filters

Hiya! I know you're super busy with ultra-important steward and CommTech stuff, but if you have the time, I'd love if you can take a look at the following threads for edit filters:

Cheers, and feel free to leave for others to do - these are quite a lot haha :) 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 04:47, 5 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'll try to take a look

I was going to say it seems like WP:EFR is getting a bit neglected, but these are all fairly recent filter syntax suggestions — pinging Tamzin who is very well versed in abusefilter syntax and would likely be happy to help — TheresNoTime (talk • she/her) 10:39, 5 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – August 2022

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).

Administrator changes

Valereee

Anthony Appleyard (deceased) • Capitalistroadster • Samsara

Guideline and policy news

An RfC has been closed with consensus to add javascript that will show edit notices for editors editing via a mobile device. This only works for users using a mobile browser, so iOS app editors will still not be able to see edit notices.
An RfC has been closed with the consensus that train stations are not inherently notable.

Technical news

The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon will take place virtually from 11 August to 14 August.
Administrators will now see links on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. (T308570)

Arbitration

The arbitration case request Geschichte has been automatically closed after a 3 month suspension of the case.

Miscellaneous

You can vote for candidates in the 2022 Board of Trustees elections from 16 August to 30 August. Two community elected seats are up for election.
Wikimania 2022 is taking place virtually from 11 August to 14 August. The schedule for wikimania is listed here. There are also a number of in-person events associated with Wikimania around the world.
Tech tip: When revision-deleting on desktop, hold ⇧ Shift between clicking two checkboxes to select every box in that range.

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Revert on Portal: Current Events

Hi TheresNoTime,

Thank you for calling me out on the reverts I recently made. After hearing from the editor, and in retrospect, I realize it was a very hasty thing to do. I have made my apologies to the editor, and have offered to assist him if needed on EN WP.

Please let my know if you have any further concerns with my conduct. Carter00000 (talk) 19:59, 5 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hey

All good! Thank you for reaching out to the editor — TheresNoTime (talk • she/her) 20:07, 5 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User creation log non-Roman script

Hello, I see that you welcomed a new editor whose User name was in Cyrillic script. It turned out that this editor is responsible for at least three accounts where Cyrillic letters were used in names that translated to "N*****kunt", "Buttf*ker", and "Nick Anal C*nt". I found these names when patrolling the User creation log for promotional names and/or user pages. When I come across a user page that's not in English I copy/paste some random text into Google Translate. If it's clearly CSD U5 or G11 it's nominated as such. If it looks like the start of a legitimate user page or article draft then I leave a talk page warning about this being the English language Wikipedia. Blue Riband► 20:15, 5 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I should probably make a habit of translating usernames... oops! — TheresNoTime (talk • she/her) 20:19, 5 August 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022

New Page Review queue August 2022

Hello TheresNoTime,

Backlog status

After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators Buidhe and Zippybonzo, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to Dr vulpes who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.

Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.

Coordination: MB and Novem Linguae have taken on some of the coordination tasks. Please let them know if you are interested in helping out. MPGuy2824 will be handling recognition, and will be retroactively awarding the annual barnstars that have not been issued for a few years.

Open letter to the WMF: The Page Curation software needs urgent attention. There are dozens of bug fixes and enhancements that are stalled (listed at Suggested improvements). We have written a letter to be sent to the WMF and we encourage as many patrollers as possible to sign it here. We are also in negotiation with the Board of Trustees to press for assistance. Better software will make the active reviewers we have more productive.

TIP - Reviewing by subject: Reviewers who prefer to patrol new pages by their most familiar subjects can do so from the regularly updated sorted topic list.

New reviewers: The NPP School is being underused. The learning curve for NPP is quite steep, but a detailed and easy-to-read tutorial exists, and the Curation Tool's many features are fully described and illustrated on the updated page here.

Reminders

Consider staying informed on project issues by putting the project discussion page on your watchlist.
If you have noticed a user with a good understanding of Wikipedia notability and deletion, suggest they help the effort by placing {{subst:NPR invite}} on their talk page.
If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process and its software.
To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

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Tech News: 2022-32

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